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tributions far too numerous to mention even by name), from 

 Russia, Bunge's revision of Anabasese, and monograpbs of Cou- 

 sinia and EcJiinops, all well illustrated, in tbe Memoirs of the 

 Petersburg Academy, and Kegel's monograph oi Betula and Ahius, 

 in the Moscow Bulletin : from Grermany, the conclusion of Han- 

 stein's Gresneracese, and Klatt's Iridese, in the Linnsea; a con- 

 tinuation of Schultz Bipontinus's Compositse, in the PoUichia ; and 

 various Orchidaceous papers of Dr. Eeichenbach, fils, dispersed 

 through a variety of periodicals : from Prance, the commencement 

 (contaiaing the general matter) of a monograph, by E. Bvu-eau, of 

 Bignoniacese, an order now requiring, perhaps more than any 

 other, a judicious rearrangement of genera (the work is in quarto, 

 with illustrations well executed, as are now all botanical plates 

 published in Paris) ; and by Decaisne, in the Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles, a revision of the curious little order or tribe of Peda- 

 linese. Two young men. Count Leonce de Lambertye, and a son 

 of Professor Milne-Edwards, have published memoirs on Sola- 

 naceae — the former from a horticultural, the latter from a popular 

 and pharmaceutical point of view ; and Eugene Eournier has 

 communicated to the Societe Botanique de Prance, some papers 

 on the very diflScult question of the classification of Cruciferse, 

 in which order, it must be confessed, natural tribes with any 

 approach to definitiveness of character liave not yet been pro- 

 posed, and perhaps do not exist. Our own Journal contains a 

 careful monograph of Bestio, by Maxwell Masters, which we 

 trust the author will soon continue through the rest of the order ; 

 and in the last part of our Transactions is a monograph, by 

 Miers, of the little group of Conantherese. The same experienced 

 botanist has, in a series of papers on Menispermacese, in the 

 Annals of Natural History, severely criticised our own as well 

 as Eichler's views of the genera and species of that order ; and 

 Seemann, in his own Journal of Botany, has published a re- 

 arrangement of a portion of Araliacese. 



ISText to general Genera and Species of Plants, and monographs 

 of large groups, the most useful works to the systematic botanist 

 are complete Floras of extensive regions. With regard to central 

 and northern Europe, the vegetation has long been well studied. 

 Prance, Switzerland, Grermany, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden, 

 as well as our own country, possess standard Ploras, alluded to in 

 my address of 1862, all good, although varying in form, extent, 

 and plan, requiring only new editions to embody corrections and 

 additions in matters of detail, and in many instances improvement 



